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A group of British teens struggle to end a war which started ten thousand years ago

Weird events have beset the Stevens Quadruplets since infancy. But nothing can prepare them for the day they open their door and find another world outside. A world inhabited by intelligent mythical creatures, most of whom are hostile to humanity. And it seems they are expected to save it from disaster.
Even with the help of their bonded ‘heart . . .

Every kingdom has a secret. Every hero, a weakness. Every villain, a master plan.

Sent out with several other Valkyries to investigate a strange anomaly by Brynhildr, Valkyrie Vaeramae follows her strict orders of noninterference. When she experiences what she thinks Brynhildr meant, she fully intends to stay with the world she was assigned to see if it was merely a strange occurrence or something with a bigger impact. But when Ölrún has a . . .

Deadly Pirate Kitten Girl

What makes a psychopath?
Magarce is a psychopath—frightening, amoral, deadly, wanton—and a Nerre, a feline creature from a world of rigorous protocol and deeply ingrained civility.
Force of Fate explores where she came from, follows with unflinching gaze as she pursues her bad choices into a world of deeper and deeper depravity and savagery—and doesn’t blink, even when . . .

Grand fantasy powerful romance

Gersius is a man driven by faith and doing what was right. He sets off on a quest to find a dragon and reunite a shattered empire to save them from a war they can’t win. As his quest begins to unravel so too does his faith in his god and his belief in himself. Now at the end of . . .

a dystopian sci-fi series

The world is dying, and the gods are fighting the godless over its destiny. Woman or man, king or queen, warrior and slave alike; they will all play their part at the end of the world—until the light takes them . . .
. . .

"Fate makes roads, but will makes travel."

In a world where creation myths are true, where mountains are sleeping behemoths, and prayers are rationed to avoid the scorn of irritable gods, a traveler named Davi wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. In this land of endless possibility, he tries his best to navigate away from the strange and epic in favor of a little . . .

The world is a Dungeon. The Dungeon Core shattered long years ago in an event called the Splintering. The shards of the Core scattered across the world. The large ones formed mini Dungeons of their own. The smaller ones turned into Skill Shards.
The inhabitants of the world can fuse with Skill Shards to get skills. The shards can . . .

One year after Toke Gnasher saved the city of Sorakines from his fallen hero, he and Zashiel are still on the run from a nationwide manhunt. Dubbed a terrorist by his own people and an unholy monster by Zashiel’s, the two of them seek refuge in the neighboring country of Vlangur. There, they find work on the Seventh Swordfish, a . . .

Protecting the border between urban and high fantasy

Kyra is the Hero, chosen to protect the border between our world and the fantasy world of the Marchlands. Ewan is the Squire, fallen between worlds and pledged to help her. June is the Guide, there to mentor but wracked with despair over the past. Meilin is the Witch, a Marchlander wondering very much how she managed to get wrapped . . .

The Broken Adventure Series

Iouernia was once a fertile land of gods and myth, but after a two-hundred-year war, magic passed out of all knowledge.
Facts became fables. Fables became faith and things that should not have been forgotten were lost to the sands of time, found only in the pages of legend. And the rule of man began.
As time passed, . . .

What happens when a summoned hero completes their task given by those from up above? When a summoned hero returns back to earth after having saved the world, do they still get to live a normal life?
The answer is actually yes, they usually do. They get married to the one they love, have kids, and then death takes . . .

A sprawling sword-and-sorcery fantasy epic anchored by a runaway orc, a brooding assassin who bears a curse, and a knight who travels with a faithful bard, The Land of Many Kings traces the treacherous machinations of an ambitious king who seeks to expand his empire.
But outside forces also hold sway. A necromancer builds an undead empire. Other conniving . . .

Random Editorial Review

Jul 4, 2013: This is a collection of stand-alone short stories, many of which have fantasy/horror elements. The other thing they have a lot of is angst, fear, longing, and regret. It’s not my usual read, but the author has a true gift for creating stories and moments that bring these things out, and then holding them up to the light like fine blown glass.

He has a talent for creating a world and telling a story succinctly, so that by the end I [more . . .]

Random Member Review

The author has taken on an ambitious task, the creation of a superhero universe as seen through the eyes of three disparate protagonists. They pull it off with panache.

Not All Heroes’ protagonists (despite the name, I wouldn’t go so far as to say heroes) bounce off one another in engaging fashion. Each has their own perspective on the ongoing mayhem, and [more . . .]